World Blogs

UAE, Israel & an Agreement

Peace – a very simple word but the most difficult one to attain in today’s circumstances. Times are tough now with the whole world is under the attack of a…

Anilkumar Kanat

Anilkumar Kanat @kanatsense

  • Aug 19, 2020, 15:45 IST

Colours speak a lot, but some louder today

The world is full of colours. Everyone knows that the primary colours are only three: Red, Yellow and Blue. And mixing the primary colours would give the secondary colours: green,…

Suvisesham Jayakumaar

Suvisesham Jayakumaar @jayakumaarsopinion

  • Aug 19, 2020, 12:06 IST

TikTok Ban: Is there more to this than meets the eye, or are we just paranoid?

  Five years ago if someone mentioned TikTok we would all be thinking of the sound a clock makes, or horror movies or the nursery rhyme. But mention TikTok to…

tarini arya

tarini arya @the blog of the observer

  • Aug 18, 2020, 14:59 IST

Life After Lockdown

Even if we imagine this it is like a different world altogether. We all are used to go out, meet, and greet our friends with hugs and handshakes. But nowadays…

Komal Shinde

Komal Shinde @Life After Lockdown

  • Aug 17, 2020, 16:29 IST

Why not humanity over nationalism

The ongoing crisis in Sudan has once again forced me to marvel at the essence of Rabindranath Tagore’s quote, “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity….

Shivani Mishra

Shivani Mishra @EfficaciousFreak

  • Aug 17, 2020, 16:25 IST

2020: The Epoch of Degenerates

I understand that given the circumstances, we’re expected to be kinder to each other and lend support and solidarity in these unprecedented times. While this sounds prudent and highly necessary…

Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy @Politically Incorrect

  • Aug 15, 2020, 23:13 IST

Tactical urbanism and Covid-19

March 24, 2020. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a three-week nation-wide lockdown with just a four-hour notice. The first thoughts that struck me were if the security guards manning…

upamanyu dasgupta

upamanyu dasgupta @UpamanyuWrites

  • Aug 13, 2020, 23:06 IST

Consciousness: A self-replicating machine project from million years ago (Mya)

Here is my perception and I am not trying to interpret anything, I don’t know when he started working on this idea, but as far as I understand it is…

JYOTI RANJAN SARDAR

JYOTI RANJAN SARDAR @FindYourselfInYou

  • Aug 13, 2020, 15:47 IST

Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin – The administrator

In the year 1924 [January] with the passing away of Comrade V.I. Lenin the reins of governance of the world’s first proletarian state were handed over to Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich…

MANOJ JOSHI

MANOJ JOSHI @MyThoughtsViews

  • Aug 10, 2020, 14:49 IST

The Opportunities for Skill-Based Learning in the Pandemic

There have been two major developments that have caught the eye of the citizenry and made ripples across the newsrooms. These two policy developments have a common thread flowing through…

Eeshan Chaturvedi

Eeshan Chaturvedi @Envirosphere

  • Aug 10, 2020, 13:40 IST